Russian Strikes Pummel Ukraine’s Power Grid

Russia struck Ukrainian energy infrastructure on Saturday night with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles, forcing emergency outages across the country and prompting Kyiv to request emergency electricity assistance from Poland. The bombardment hit high-voltage transmission lines that form the backbone of the national grid, along with power plants and substations, Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said.

He added that operators at nuclear power plants were forced to “unload” reactor units, reducing output or shutting reactors as a precaution when external supplies became unstable. The attacks came days after peace talks that showed little progress. “Every day, Russia could choose real diplomacy, but it chooses new strikes,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media.

He also said the next round of negotiations, expected in mid-February in Miami, will include delegations from Ukraine, Russia and the United States. Trilateral talks in the United Arab Emirates produced few concrete results, Mr.

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